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Nippon TV's year end music show Best Artist 2015 is currently airing in Japan. KAT-TUN is one of the acts performing at tonight's show. Before their performance of "Dead or Alive", member Taguchi Junnosuke make a shocking announcement: he will be ...

Its that time of year again folks - Anime Festival Asia in Singapore. I'm off this week to the Mer-land where I will be MC'ing and cleaning toilets as usual. Just a few notes before I go into merchandise details.

By Chris Priestman . November 23, 2015 . 2:30pm There have been a number of Kickstarter campaigns to fund the localization of various Japanese games. Muv-Luv is one of those, Clannad is another, and there's also The Grisaia Trilogy, as well as oth...

Visual novel Clannad released on PC in Japan back in 2004 and since spawned various adaptations, including an anime series. Publisher Sekai Project ran a Kickstarter last year for an official English release that was funded by almost 6,000 backers...

Gangsta. , the definitively-punctuated manga recently adapted into an anime series, is going on hiatus due to author Kohske's poor health, reports Monthly Comic Bunch magazine. The manga, which has been serialized in Bunch since 2011, is being rel...

Japanese entertainment website Umabi has published a new rhythm game for smart phones and web browsers that pits sumo wrestlers against Street Fighter characters in no-holds-barred horse racing competitions.

With excitement building for the latest Gundam anime, Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt, a brand new PV for the anime's first episode has finally been streamed, and it features the core rivalry between two pilots which the anime will be focusing on.

The official website of the anime adaptation of Sorata Akiduki's Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (Snow White with the Red Hair) manga has revealed the first visual for the anime's upcoming second cour, which will start airing from January.

We notice the big changes. When characters look quite different or the animation isn't up to snuff. What about the more subtle ones? We notice those less, but they offer an interesting peek at how animators bring their own style to a work.

Gundam is a word that is synonymous with anime. Not just content with being the biggest mecha (or maybe even anime in general) franchises in the world, it's also something of an institution - spawning numerous sequels and spinoffs, video games, li...

Check-out this new Terebi-Kun magazine scans from the Ninninger portion featuring the return of Shurikenger! So what will be Shurikenger's motive in showing up in the house of Igasaki? Or wil he and Starninger have a duet?

The official website of the anime adaptation of Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2 began streaming a new promotional video and revealed the series to start premiere on January 7th on TBS with Shouta Aoi singing the theme song, now titled "Peerless Star...

Hello everyone, Kahotan here! (@gsc_kahotan) It's finally that time of the year again! Time For Snow Miku-san! The 2016 theme for Snow Miku was 'Hokkaido Winter Sports', and the final choice for both the Nendoroid and figma versions of 2016's Snow...

Bandai Namco revealed in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine that Captain Levi Ackerman and Hange Zoë (AKA Potato Girl) will be playable characters in the upcoming Attack on Titan game by Koei Tecmo.

Choucho, who previously performed the OP song for the 2012 Girls und Panzer TV anime, "Dream Riser," is also the one responsible for performing the theme song for the series' own movie, Girls und Panzer der Film, which is now showing in Japan.

(Photo : Official Youtube) Halloween may have ended months ago, but there's plenty of terror coming in anime this winter. I suppose it makes sense if you think the holidays are a nightmare. Like Us on Facebook Nevertheless, horror anime shorts ser...

'剣士殺し III' (Kenshi Koroshi III) "Sword Eater III" Case Closed! Heart Of A Samurai With Ayase's arc coming to a close, let's just talk about the whole thing for a little. Growing up under the man skilled enough to be called the Last Samurai, it mus...

Actress Kiritani Mirei will star in TV Asahi's Friday night drama "Sumika Sumire" starting in January. The drama is based on Takanashi Mitsuba's popular manga series of the same title. Kiritani will play the role of a 65-year-old woman named 'Sumi...

Every week, one of the key staff members reveals a special storyboard panel that's related to the upcoming episode. This week, fans got hilarious drawing of a brand new superhero Puri Puri Prisoner, and Speed-o-Sound Sonic.

CyberConnect2 and Bandai Namco are releasing the latest stylish action brawler in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven next month, and its latest trailer shows us a summary on what the game is all about.

By Jenni . November 23, 2015 . 9:00am Agatsuma Entertainment has put together an Umihara Kawase bundle for everyone who waited until all three games had been released on Steam to buy. On November 24, the same day Umihara Kawase Shun makes its worl...

If you're a convention warrior, like us here at the Otaku Reviewers, you've seen your fair share of ups and downs on your convention journeys. We are no exception to the rule. While we cover the highlights of various conventions (As seen at Conven...

'寄り添うかたち' (Yorisou Katachi) "The Form of Closeness" He's not exactly Craster, but that doesn't mean Naze Turbine is a swell guy. Once again Tekketsu no Orphans turned on a dime, ditching last week's action-driven style for a dialogue-heavy episode...

According to the January 2016 issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward seinen manga magazine which will be published in Japan on November 24, 2015, the TV anime adaptation of Unhappy Go Lucky (aka Unhappy, aka Anne Happy), based on the humor...

50 volumes and a new arc begins in full! Creative Staff: Story/Art: Hiro Mashima Translation: William Flanagan Lettering: AndWorld Design Editing: Ben Applegate What They Say: Natsu, Lucy, and Happy are on a journey to find their former comrades a...

While fans are currently checking out the alternative-setting story for Garo with Crimson Moon, the original series that aired back in late 2014 and into 2015 has now had more arrive on the theatrical anime feature that's coming for it.

Fuji TV began airing the first commercial for the upcoming TV anime special One Piece ~Adventure of Nevlandia~ on Sunday that will air on December 19. The video previews the theme song by J-Pop singer Namie Amuro titled "Black Make Up.

In Square Enix's latest arcade trailer for Dissidia Final Fantasy, Lightning the heroine of the Final Fantasy XIII series shows off her moves in her highlight video. Lightning is classed as a Speed-type character in Dissidia Final Fantasy for arcade.

Warner Home Entertainment today announced that five-member Japanese rock band ALL OFF, who made their major debut with 1st OP "One More Chance! ! ," will again perform the yet-titled new OP theme song for the ongoing TV anime adaptation of Kazuma ...

Why did Bill Trinen eat all the doughnuts? Yo-kai is why! As part of a commercial series introducing North American audiences to Yo-kai, the mischievous spirits that haunt the Yōkai Watch game and anime series, Nintendo of America posted this vide...